Arsenal and Sheffield United have been left frustrated with the news that Kyle Bartley has actually broken his collar bone, not just cracked it as was first feared. It leaves the centre back with an uncertain immediate future.
Bartley made 12 appearances on loan in the Championship with Sheffield United last season, and a deal was in place for him to return to Yorkshire for the full campaign after completing pre-season with Arsenal. However, during the holidays he suffered an injury to his collar bone, which was first believed to only be a crack, but is now confirmed as a break.
Kyle was hoping to win a first-team place during pre-season and instead be a part of Arsène Wenger’s plans for the new season, something The Blades were content with. However, the injury saw Ignasi Miquel jump the queue, even featuring against Barnet in pre-season. It leaves Kevin Blackwell short of re-inforcements, with the former Leeds boss already turning to former Gunner Kerrea Gilbert.
Bartley is expected to return to training in two to three months.
Shame for the lad, he’ll be back, will hopefully be a great player for us in the future.
i think tht picture sums up the championship lol 2 players, 2 head injuries
or its probably just the fact that the 2 players clashed heads with each other!lol
Yeah, because players are NEVER getting injured in the Premiership.
Nicely said Guy
It shouldn’t mess up his season too much. He could be fit to train fully before the transfer window closes. I hope they can just postpone the loan transfer a bit.
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how the hell did the medics make such a wrong call, and who did he injured it
How the hell did he injure himself on holidays?? What, was he roofing and fell off the damn roof?? This could see him lose his place to Miquel. In fact it already has. This is a real shame. Miquel is good enough that Bartley may never get it back.
Dont think Miguel is anywhere ready yet, Milo mate. Bartley will be able to go out on loan to a Championship team when he is eventually fit. That would be the best thing for him, IMO.
Easy J, I’ve broken both my collar bones. The worse break/mend of the two was pretty bad and I was back playing again in 6 wks….So it’s not a massive issue and a loan could still be possible
I think Miquel could easily play in the championship. Bartley may not have lost out to Miquel yet, but Ignasi can steal a march on his squad postition now that Bartley is injured. If Miquel impresses enough, why not keep him with the 1st team squad and play him in the Carling Cup and the odd F.A. Cup or Champions League fixture?? That is what Bartley could have been doing if he weren’t injured. Hopefully he’ll heal quickly and be able to re-claim his spot. I am a huge Miquel fan and a Bartley fan as well. From what I have seen they could really make a good partnership, as they have contrasting styles and are both pretty tall already!! I hope they both make it.
Well, he’ll need to stay off roofs!
Hi everyone from a Norway Gooner in Austria..
Yes the pic sums it up…. I feel sorry for Kyle…We have too many injuries..!!
And here is moore of that – from a new day in Austria…
Allready we have sent back Henderson, Landsbury, Eastmond and Traore from this camp.
I spoke too Neil Banfield this evning and he told me that Hend & Land was not far away from full traning. Eastmond was runing 2 days ago, so he should be ok soon. Traore looks not so good. Today AW start with 22 players but end up with 20… Song and Gibbs limp off, but I dont think it is too serious, but none of them played this afternoon. Both was in the gym with Diaby. This morning AW still separate away the 5 other WC players. He played the Defenders (Verm5, Kos6, JD20, Gibbs, Nordtveit, Frimpong) against the Fowards (Nasri, JW19, Theo, AA23, TR7, JET, Cha29), and use just one goal. Vito was the GK, and he was excellent. All the Def was OK too, and they only cons one goal. A beauty from AA23 (at last!). Nasri create the chance, and AA23 smash it home past Vito. The good news from this morning was Theo assists from his flank. AW set up JET (left) and Theo (right) wide to feed Cha29 and Nasri. Cha29 grab 3 goals and is looking better every day. The bad news was that the next pair, Sagna (right) and Clichy (left) could not give AA23 and Vela – one disent pass!! MOTM this morning was Vito, but cred to Nasri, Cha 29 and all the Def.
This afternoon AW split 20 players in 4 teams, and arr 6 games. The teams:
Blue: Alm1 – JD20, Clichy – JW19, Theo
White: Szcz – Sagna, Nordtveit – Nasri, Cha29
Yellow: Vito – Kos6, Frimpong – TR7, JET
Green: Fabi – Verm5, Eboue – AA23, Vela
Results:
B-G 1-2 (JW19 – Vela 2)
W-Y 0-3 (Kos6, JET, TR7)
B-W 1-2 (Clichy – Nordtveit, Sagna)
Y-G 0-4 (Vela 2, Eboue, Vern5)
Y-B 2-2 (TR7, JET – JW19 2)
W-G 1-3 (Nasri – AA23 2, Verm5)
The Green team won all 3 games and Verm5 and Eboue have been exc on this camp, and today Vela did really impress with 4 goals. (he had one more, but ref Pat Rice blow full time when Velas beautyful chip was on his way into the net) AA23 shows again that if it “suits him” he can be magic. JW19 and Nasri again put up a great show, and they look so sharpe.
Also cred to Kos6 and Nordtveit. They will fill the gap from Gallas/Silvestre/Senderos with ease. JD20 need more time but he will give us more power in the box.And cred to all the 4 GK. They feel the competion, and work hard. JET was not so good today. JW19 was exc in last Emirates Cup, and I cant see why this should be his season..
I hope ….. Bring on Liverpool – please !
Great work Supermac, our own little Austria camp spy! ;D
Loving all this info, it’s great to know that Kos and Chamakh are settling in quickly and already looking good. And that 5-a-side tournament sounds like a hoot, I think fans would pay money to watch it! Going by what you’ve seen, do you think Eboue and Kos could be in the first XI come the start of the season?
Nice work, so you mean Lansbury, Henderson etc have been sent home right?
That’s some in depth info which is hard to find! Very very interesting. Thank you so much for this info. I will miss your report from training sessions when the season begins :(
Amazingly well written report man!
Geez I wish Arshavin would just feel like playing all the time. The Russian hockey players are similar to him. They’re brilliant but they don’t always feel like playing. There is the odd exception, but as a whole it is very frustrating to watch. I’m part Russian, but I have never been to Russia, so I don’t really know what their cultutre is like. I know it isn’t the best place to live, but why let that permeate throughout every aspect of your life?? It’s a mystery to me. I guess I should read Tolstoy lol. I still probably wouldn’t understand their mentality even then lol. I just shake my head…
Thanks for the update Supermac!!:D I wish I was there to see it all. Do you live in Austria or did you vacation there too just like the Arsenal??
Milo – I am on a vacatin, and follow Arsenal !
Vito mannone is a brilliant shot stopper hes probably the best at arsenalbut his problem is he doesnt command the box enough.
Woijech szcensy for me is the best at that and hes also the bravest and has the whole package
omg you really have no clue!! Mannone the best? Did you see Tech9 play. Also Afobe is highly rated at the coaching stuff so let him alone. He will kick Bendnters ass in 2-3 years to come!!!
Supermac do you think koscielny can handle the premiership? His he physical enough fast enough?
Also who do you think our best dribbler is from what you seen.
Eboue, arshavin, vela, wilshere, nasri, rosicky?
Yes – Kos6 will make it in the PL…Maybe he need some time to ajust..
Nasri is our best dribbler, but JW19 is not far behind Nasri…
Supermac i am not a big fan of samir nasri hes always seems to be impressive in training.
But in matches he doesnt really go past players he doesnt really have tricks and i dont think hes as good as fabgregas or ramsey in central midfield.
I am big carlos vela fan great to see him back hopefully he can play more games this season
I wouldn’t discount Nasri’s skills on the basis of what we’ve seen so far. I know that sounds daft, but I suggest it’s age and confidence. Nasri probably doesn’t feel it’s his team yet b/c Cesc and Arshavin and maybe even Rosicky squeeze him out, mentally. I am always surprised how much footballers respect hierarchy and reputation, even if Nasri did take TH14s seat on the bus. Once.
Same perhaps for Mannone. Maybe when he’s 26 or 27 — a proper man, just about — he’ll command his box better? That was the difference for Rooney. He didn’t respect reputations and burst on the scene. Also physical maturity, but the mental stuff that comes with rising up the hierarchy really matters too, as I am sure you know.
Donovan, I agree with you on Nasri. I think he felt like ‘the man’ at Marseille, but at Arsenal with the likes of Cesc, Arshavin and RVP around he looks a bit inhibited at times. As if he feels he shouldn’t try things or take risks, just play it safe and leave it to those players who he feels inferior to, weave their magic.
But whenever he’s asked to take on more responsibility (like against Porto, when Cesc and RVP were both injured), Nasri has usually delivered. He’s a confidence player I think, someone who needs to be told how good they are and be made to feel an important player in order to play with freedom.
I wouldn’t say Nasri can’t go past players…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tx-R5jxpr4
I dont think nasri is a premiership player.
he hardly goes past players and when he doesn he seems to run out of pace and get bullied off the ball.
When he runs with the ball it doesnt shrug off challenges like the way walcott, arshavin can.
Yo John! UEFA Champions League, Emirates Stadium
Tuesday, March 09, 2010, vs Porto ? NASRI take a look @ his goal ?
why do you think so? do you remember the 2 goals that he scored against man-u and the one against porto in the champions league last year. like all players at a young age, he is inconsistent and injuries have not helped. we have been spoiled by the brilliance of cesc who from a young age has delivered. nasri will shine too in time.
you wrong mate..watch out nasri this season
yo John…. i don’t think Wenger is a fool!!!!!!!!!!!
To say nasri doesn’t struggle off challenges like Walcott is absolutely ridiculous. Walcott gets bullied off the ball, if anything nasri is the hardest player to tackle in the 1st team squad his upper body strength is amazing for his size. Also the link up play between cesc and nasri was amazing at times last year why people don’t seem to rate him is beyond me. His play is not just about his dribbling his passing intelligence is quality. Watch this year he will prove you all wrong. Nasri is a class above in my eyes our best creative player after cesc.
God can you please stop plaguing Arsenal blogs john? The amount of bullshit you post is for the Guinness book. You are either 14 years old or just plain dumb.
I apologize to the other guys here but this moron is just p…..g me off
Veske dont cry mate if you disagree with my opinion its ok.
Plaguing i am giving my honest views.
Samir Nasri hasnt been great in my opinion. People says hes this brilliant dribbler, playmaker.
I have hardly ever seen him go past players, showed some vision.
All i have seen him do is on the left wing or central midfield cut into his right foot and pass the ball to someone else.
The guy doesnt suit our play or system. Look i hope i am proved wrong this season but he just doesnt have the physical attributes in my opinion to play in the premiership.
Dude you “honest opinion” is idiotic. If you by any chance didn’t notice – on all the blogs where you spout your random bullshit people bash you? Why do you think that’s happening? I can ignore trolling and but this amount of stupidity is impossible to ignore.
Veske arsenal fans are biased towards thier own players especially on a webiste like this but i am one of these gooners who sees the actual picture.
Samir nasri doesnt go past players (please give me examples i dont remeber any) yh at marseille he did but i have never seen him give a team a hiding. I havent seen him destroy a full back., Veske have you i cant rember games where he as actually got the ball beat a player with skill and create a goal.
maybe john you have never played football…. ur game is limited to individual display. but football is a team game where not everybody has to destroy the defence. and i still think u don’t know what it is to be on a pitch playing a high intensity game…. again wenger is no fool… and ur analysis of the game is really very poor…. u don’t understand what is age or physical and mental development…. in all u should not contribute to this blog.
Veske do you think i give a monkeys if ppl bash me or not.
I only come on these blogs and wesbites to express my views and as a die hard gooner i am giving my honest opinions on what i have seen
Oh my god……. http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/161545 I should use this as a reminder.
First of all you use your dumbass opinion as a fact without any backing. You clearly are not a die hard gooner – you are a Lansbury’s, Freeman’s and Bendtner’s fan, and you spout crap about players that are ahead of them or that everybody claim that they will take their spot. So with this post I will stop with OT posts and try to ignore your further random bullshit because this obviously doesn’t get into your head and no matter how many people prove that the lines you repeat all the time are stupid – you will not recognize that
thanks veske..
Hey Veske take it easy. You should respect differents point of view..
All I Need 2 Say 2 Any 1 Who Does Not Believe In Arsenal Is
1st Team:
Szczesny
Sagna – Koscielny – Vemalean – Clichy
Fabregas – Song – Nasri
VanPersie – Chamakh – Arshavin
2nd Team:
Mannone(Fabianski)
Eboue – Djourou – Nordtveit – Gibbs(Traore)
Wilshere – Denilson – Diaby(Ramsey)
Walcot – Bendtner – Vela
3rd Team:
James.Shea
Eastmond – Bartley – Miquel – Botelho(Cruise)
Coquelin(Henderson) – Frimpong – Lansbury(Randall)
J.E.Thomas(W.Silva) – Simpson(Sunu) – Barazite(Watt)
And to @John its not that Nasri is not good enuf, but the reason he performs better when Fabregas is not on the pitch is because Wenger uses him on the wing when Fabregas plays, while in training n our pre season matches his been playing in the central role, next season i think we should drop Diaby to the bench and go wiv 2AM n 1DM in a 4-3-3 formation like Barca(Cant believe am comparing us to those player tappers):
Fabregas(Xavi) – Song(Busquetes) – Nasri(Iniesta) and am pretty sure we got enuf players for any injury
let wenger decide
your right AFM..Nasri once dubbed the new Zidane before he transferred to arsenal..the problem is Nasri just can’t play in the CM position because Fantastic Fabregas playing there..AW often play Nasri in wide position to give us more option..he can dribble too and good in 1 to 1 situation..last season he playing brilliantly in CM when fabregas was absent due to injury..i still believe Nasri future position is in the CM(playmaker) due to his creativity and skill..sorry for the english mate..
JS …. watched it on french tv yesterday that Savic has signed to French team Bordeaux for E 1m.
Hi Amit,
It’s not Stefan Savic the Arsenal trialist. It’s Vujadin Savic that they’ve signed.
2 years down the line we will have he best midfield in the world
jack wishare / samir nasri / cecs fabregas / alex song / aron ramsay.
the rest are still young but these players have already proved to us that they are first team players
just wish walcott develops and so does vela……
we would be unstopable….
wih this midfield who needs diaby and denielson….
cesc will leave next year but I get the point
I think wilshere is a better central midfielder than nasri.
When fabregas got injured then ramsey got injured nasri couldnt perform even though he was playing in his best position for 10 games.
Hes the reason why we dropped off the title race he showed no creativity, guile, ability to win a game.
I just wished at that time aaron ramsey was fit because he would have done a much better job than nasri in central midfield
hi I read your comments on Nasri I can tell you when He played for Marseille He played CM and He was really good so I think he can really play at this place but Cesc is here and he is terrific .
What do you think about Kos ? (I think he can make it in first XI but I’m affraid about his weight
Honestly I appreciate your opinion but to say Ramsey or Wiltshire are better than nasri in cm is nonsense. Nasri is appreciated by wenger for the brilliant all round player he is; strong in the tackle, great dribbled, good finisher, great vision and he has a amazingly clever passing ability and a ability to unlock defenses. I remember one of the goals he set up for frabregas last where he played the most wonderful chip over the top for cesc, one of many. He is our second best midfielder in my eyes as much as I love song and he will prove you wrong.
I would like to see better efficiency from Nas between forward movement off-the-ball and coming towards the ball along with the fullback marking him into sometimes already congested area. In addition to that, Nas needs to also maintain equilibrium between dribbling on the outside and inside of the fullback to cross or play through-balls.
IMO Nasri will take over from fabregas the season after next when cesc leaves =l.
Nasri is quality and given another season or 2 will be world class, you see it in some games already, i.e Porto when he ran the show. GIven another couple of seasons he will be a lot more consistent.
The thing is he’s been playing out of position since he signed, and thats simply cos fabregas is one of the top 3 midfielders in the world. I’d like to say top 1.. but thats just biased i think.
But once nasri gets into the centre week in week out he’ll push fabregas all the way i think. When he filled in there last season he had some very good games, but you can tell he got tired at times, and thats simply because its a complete different pressure and intensity playing CM rather than on the ‘wing’. Once he gets more games in CM you’ll see more consistency and freedom in his play, rather than when fabregas is playing and he’s a bit inhibited.
For me Nasri is class and will become top, top drawer, he just needs time and his real position!
to john, if u want an example of nasri dribble past players obviously against porto… the goal of the season, dribbles past 5 players. But i still think that he could not replace fab as the playmaker cause of he did not have great range of passing as good as fabregas, and could not setup a tempo for the team to play, whether to slow the tempo or accelerate it. He always gung-ho even when our team is leading. e.g againts porto. fortunately we win it because porto was not good enough to counter attack. btw to j.s, good work… and the fans here is intelligence than any website or arsenal blogs i’ve read so far. Sorry for the english, i’m still learning.
i think you need to delete this page.
bartley is back in full training with arsenal reserves and could feature in there game tomorrow the only reason he wont do is if a loan move is on the cards. I find it a bit disturbing that u publish such stories when u have to proof behind it. And feel as though you owe the kid an apology.
@ John
I lolled, infact i rofled when i read your stuff. go back to being unemployed, that is obviousy what you are best at. Erning minimum wage on stacking shelves at Tesco is just to good for people like you .
LOL
I think Kyle played last night.